Exploring Vercel Analytics Using Next.js 10 and GTMetrix

Add some datapoints to your new Vercel Analytics setup with GTMetrix and explore an overview of the results

Vercel announced their new analytics feature at their recent Next.js conference and, great news— it’s now live to try out!

In my most recent post, I deployed a simple Next.js 10 application to Vercel. Now it’s time to test out some of the new features!

In this post, we’ll cover how to enable Vercel Analytics on a Vercel hosted Next.js 10 project, then use GTMetrix to help send some request from around the globe (using throttling for various speeds) that our analytics can collect (on top of any other potential visits to the site).

The “What” of Vercel Analytics

A great way to understand what is on offer is to read through Vercel’s analytics overview.

It covers things like pricing, what you get per tier, and which frameworks are supported (Next.js 10+, Gatsby 2+). It also gives an overview of each of the metrics that you get and why those metrics are so important in modern web development.

While I will not cover what’s in the above overview, I will be exploring some of the data points being ingested and calculated.

Enabling Vercel Analytics

This assumes you have a Next.js 10 project currently hosted on Vercel. If you do not but would like one, follow my recent post to upload a basic site.

Once that’s done, head to your Vercel dashboard and select the project you want to enable analytics on. I chose the project directly from my previous blog post.

Once on the project page, select “Analytics” from the top row, and you will be greeted with an “Enable analytics” button. Don’t worry if you’re on the free tier — the overview informs us that on the hobby tier, you’re eligible for one-day retention, 100 maximum data points per day with a 100% sample rate.

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